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0 pointsziddoap1y ago0 comments

People taking such offense to something so absolutely inconsequential, on an internet forum no less, is ridiculous to me and I can't take anyone seriously who gets worked up about it.

You, and parent poster, understood them fine. You, and the parent poster, are the ones who are steering the conversation in the direction of how they typed, not what they typed.

They had a "perfectly good observation to talk about", yet u decided not to talk about it.

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Brian_K_White1y ago

It's at least as valid, in fact more so, to say that I was distracted by something they decided to say.

There is no objective way to assign all blame for the tangent to just us or just them, however the closest you can come is to say that whoever speaks first is more responsible for their unprompted speech than responders are for their reactions. They chose their reactions, but they are not reactions in a vacuum, they are reactions to something, that came from someone else.

thunderfork1y ago

Both reactors and reactees have equal opportunity not to speak.

A reactor who reacts simply to nitpick provides much less to a conversation than a reactee with interesting thoughts expressed unusually.

moi23881y ago

ur both rite

zajio1am1y ago

I do not know about native speakers, but for me as a non-native speaker, such informal language is much harder to read.

umanwizard1y ago

I'm a native English speaker and whether it's harder to read depends on what you mean by "harder". It's immediately obvious what it means (so it's not "harder" in that sense), but on the other hand, it's jarring and distracts me from the point being made.

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